hi, i recently migrated to XP, and the following chunk of very straight forward code dies at the read() on line 11 every time i run it. it connects then dies. i tried replacing the read() with @data=<S>, but the array always ends up empty. i tried the exact same http request over telnet, and it worked fine. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
$host="www.google.com";
socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
$s=sockaddr_in(80,inet_aton($host));
if (connect(S,$s)) {
  print "connected to $host\n";
  print S "GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\n\n";
  read(S,$data,100) || die;
  close(S);
} else { die "connect failed\n" }

print $data;

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i have no idea why this wouldnt work. thanks

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